Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 666 483 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.41% 14.16% 9.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.61% 52.96% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 455 369 282
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,600 £78,675
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,399 912 982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 17.67% 26.73% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 960 661 619
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,784 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire 0 207 £59,500 +8.18% 80
Essex -2 155 £40,000 +14.29% 48
Cambridgeshire -15 131 £53,000 +57.04% 73
Suffolk +29 81 £39,875 -20.25% 23
Norfolk +2 65 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Bedfordshire -17 26 £37,500 -16.67% 34
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 110 (16.52%) SharePoint
2 53 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.50%) WordPress
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.45%) IIS
6 3 (0.45%) SAS
7 2 (0.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.30%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.30%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 208 (31.23%) Microsoft 365
2 121 (18.17%) Entra ID
3 99 (14.86%) Power Platform
4 89 (13.36%) Azure AI
5 74 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (10.96%) AWS
7 68 (10.21%) OneDrive
8 36 (5.41%) PowerApps
9 34 (5.11%) Power Automate
10 30 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (3.75%) GitHub
12 24 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (3.45%) GCP
14 21 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (2.85%) SaaS
17 17 (2.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 17 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 17 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
18 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 78 (11.71%) Firewall
2 68 (10.21%) DNS
3 53 (7.96%) DHCP
3 53 (7.96%) VPN
4 39 (5.86%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.70%) Wireless
6 14 (2.10%) MQTT
7 12 (1.80%) VLAN
7 12 (1.80%) WAN
8 11 (1.65%) Network Security
8 11 (1.65%) VoIP
9 10 (1.50%) Internet
9 10 (1.50%) LAN
10 8 (1.20%) PBX
11 7 (1.05%) Broadband
11 7 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.60%) DMZ
12 4 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.45%) SSL
14 2 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (15.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 79 (11.86%) Power BI
3 57 (8.56%) MongoDB
4 37 (5.56%) Tableau
5 31 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 27 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.60%) Looker
11 4 (0.60%) Milvus
11 4 (0.60%) MySQL
11 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.45%) Metadata
12 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.00%) Git
2 12 (1.80%) JIRA
3 4 (0.60%) MLflow
3 4 (0.60%) Selenium
3 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.45%) git-flow
4 3 (0.45%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.30%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 316 (47.45%) Social Skills
2 63 (9.46%) Finance
3 27 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (2.25%) Marketing
5 14 (2.10%) Law
5 14 (2.10%) Legal
5 14 (2.10%) Retail
6 12 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (1.80%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.20%) Games
9 6 (0.90%) Advertising
10 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.60%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.45%) Aviation
12 3 (0.45%) Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 154 (23.12%) Developer
2 114 (17.12%) IT Support
3 105 (15.77%) Analyst
4 83 (12.46%) .NET Developer
5 78 (11.71%) Support Engineer
6 77 (11.56%) IT Engineer
7 74 (11.11%) Junior
8 70 (10.51%) Senior
9 69 (10.36%) Junior Analyst
10 64 (9.61%) IT Support Engineer
11 37 (5.56%) Security Analyst
12 34 (5.11%) Data Analyst
13 33 (4.95%) Lead
13 33 (4.95%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 32 (4.80%) Ethical Hacker
14 32 (4.80%) Junior Data Analyst
14 32 (4.80%) Junior Security Analyst
14 32 (4.80%) Network Engineer
15 31 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (18.32%) .NET
2 99 (14.86%) .NET Core
3 79 (11.86%) ASP.NET
4 78 (11.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.61%) CSS
6 58 (8.71%) HTML
7 54 (8.11%) RESTful
8 36 (5.41%) React
9 35 (5.26%) Entity Framework
10 31 (4.65%) ML.NET
11 29 (4.35%) Node.js
12 28 (4.20%) Blazor
13 24 (3.60%) Terraform
14 22 (3.30%) AngularJS
15 21 (3.15%) ASP.NET Web API
16 20 (3.00%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (3.00%) JSON
16 20 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
16 20 (3.00%) Vue
17 19 (2.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.31%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.01%) Driving Licence
3 33 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 32 (4.80%) Cyberattack
5 15 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.05%) CCTV
11 7 (1.05%) Digital TV
11 7 (1.05%) iPhone
12 6 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.90%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.90%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.75%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.75%) PKI
13 5 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 156 (23.42%) Windows
2 88 (13.21%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.55%) Linux
4 14 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.50%) Android
6 10 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.30%) Unix
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (21.77%) AI
2 140 (21.02%) Cybersecurity
3 124 (18.62%) Agile
4 102 (15.32%) Mentoring
5 99 (14.86%) DevOps
6 84 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (12.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 82 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
9 76 (11.41%) CI/CD
10 73 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (9.16%) Machine Learning
12 53 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 44 (6.61%) Roadmaps
14 42 (6.31%) Computer Science
15 41 (6.16%) Cloud Security
16 39 (5.86%) Service Delivery
17 38 (5.71%) User Experience
18 36 (5.41%) Containerisation
18 36 (5.41%) Customer Service
19 35 (5.26%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 206 (30.93%) SQL
2 149 (22.37%) C#
3 108 (16.22%) Python
4 60 (9.01%) PowerShell
5 59 (8.86%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.16%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.00%) PHP
8 14 (2.10%) Java
9 10 (1.50%) C++
10 9 (1.35%) Bicep
11 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.60%) Bash
12 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.45%) Ruby
13 3 (0.45%) Rust
13 3 (0.45%) Scala
14 2 (0.30%) Go
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 171 (25.68%) Azure Certification
2 76 (11.41%) Degree
3 39 (5.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 38 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (4.80%) CEH
5 32 (4.80%) CompTIA CySA+
6 31 (4.65%) CCNA
6 31 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.05%) Network+ Certification
8 26 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.25%) Security Cleared
10 9 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.35%) SC Cleared
11 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.05%) CCNP
13 5 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.75%) CISSP
14 3 (0.45%) A+ Certification
14 3 (0.45%) CCSK
14 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.35%) GDPR
1 29 (4.35%) QA
2 27 (4.05%) SLA
3 21 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.95%) NIST
6 12 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.20%) NCSC
8 7 (1.05%) GRC
9 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.75%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.60%) PMO
12 3 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) IFRS
13 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.86%) Hyper-V
3 36 (5.41%) Docker
4 31 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.30%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 76 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.75%) SCCM
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 469 (70.42%) Microsoft
2 88 (13.21%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.36%) Cisco
4 36 (5.41%) VMware
5 26 (3.90%) Apple
6 23 (3.45%) Google
7 17 (2.55%) Adobe
8 14 (2.10%) Meraki
9 13 (1.95%) Facebook
10 11 (1.65%) Veeam
11 10 (1.50%) Ubiquiti
12 9 (1.35%) Databricks
12 9 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.05%) SonicWALL
14 5 (0.75%) Sony
14 5 (0.75%) Sophos
14 5 (0.75%) Yahoo!
15 4 (0.60%) Draytek
15 4 (0.60%) Epicor